CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

AEB - Advanced Engineering Building - Building 49 | Hawken Building – Building 50

Start Time End Time Event Venue

8:00 am 5:20 pm Registration AEB

Level 2 Foyer

8:30 am 9:40 am Welcome - Prof. Jason Stokes

Keynote Speaker - Prof. Chris Greig Keynote Speaker- Mr. Jeremy Herbert

AEB Level 2 Auditorium

Room 200

9:40 am 10:10 am Morning Tea AEB

Level 2 Foyer

10:10 am 11:10 am Technical Session 1 Hawken Building

(See Technical Sessions)

11:10 am 11:20 am Break

11:20 am 12:20 pm Technical Session 2 Hawken Building

(See Technical Sessions)

12:20 pm 1:10 pm Lunch Hawken Building

Room C-207

1:10 pm 2:10 pm Technical Session 3 Hawken Building

(See Technical Sessions)

2:10 pm 2:20 pm Break

2:20 pm 3:35 pm Technical Session 4 Hawken Building

(See Technical Sessions)

3:35 pm 4:05 pm Afternoon Tea AEB

Level 2 Foyer

4:05 pm 5:20 pm Poster Session AEB

Level 3 Room 301

5:20 pm 6:30 pm Keynote Speaker - Dr. Liza O’Moore

Prize Presentations Closing – Mr. Muhammad Qamar Raza

AEB Level 2 Auditorium

Room 200

6:30 pm 8:00 pm Networking Event AEB

Level 5 Balcony

Morning tea, afternoon tea and lunch will be provided. Finger food and beverages will be served at the networking event.

TECHNICAL SESSIONS

Room 50-N202 50-N201 50-S201 50-T203 50-T103 50-T105

Start End Topic DSC I: Transport Energy I: Coal & Gas Energy II: Sustainability Energy III: Storage Water I: Waste Water MR I: Simulation

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Raza Tianhang Bai Wenjing Wang Xin Fan Limin Lin Luisa Prasetyo

10:25 am 10:40 am Mohadeseh Rahbar Junyu Wang Tom Reddell Dongfang Yang Lele Wang ShiLiang Johnathan Tan

10:40 am 10:55 am S M Mahmud Farzin Hamidi Igor Vassilev Linzhou Zhuang Alice Strazzabosco Mohammad Aminpour

10:55 am 11:10 am Samuel Hislop-Lynch Zhenhua Jing Paula Hernandez Xin Fu Tan Nur Hafizah Ab Hamid Matthew Pozzebon

Start End Topic DSC II: Assorted Energy IV: Simulation Energy V: Power &

Experimental Design Energy VI: Storage MR II: Mining MR III: Metals & Alloys

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2 Kirsty Volz Travis Mitchell Md Monirul Islam Rohit Gaddam Andrew Job Qiyang Tan

11:35 am 11:50 am Xu Jiang Michael Dennis Benjamin Wu Hao Lu Tim D'Adamo Sean Johnston

11:50 am 12:05 pm Kianoosh Soltani Naveh Amin Kamyar Fei Ren Masud Rana Petrus Terblanche Shiqian Liu

12:05 pm 12:20 pm Ian Levett Duo Wang Awan Uji Krismanto Xia Huang Munirud Dean Nagasivamuni Balasubramani

Start End Topic Water II: Bio-solids Energy VII: Simulation MR IV: Assorted Energy VIII: Renewables

MR V: Minerals & Extractive Metallurgy

MR VI: Materials

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1:25 pm 1:40 pm Zhiyao Wang Ebby Thomas Leela Dilkes-Hoffman Mengmeng Hao Stuart Nicol Aditi Roy

1:40 pm 1:55 pm Angelica Guerrero Jianhui Qi Matthias Falzon Shanker Lamichhane Ambrosia Ivana Flora Somidin

1:55 pm 2:10 pm Catherine Macintosh Lakshitha Naranpanawe Asif Islam Amit Dhoke Dilini Seneviratne Sven Diermann

Start End Topic Health I Energy IX: Simulation Energy X: Assorted Energy XI: Renewables Water III: Assorted

& IE I MR VII: Materials

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Albert Tate Ngoc Nguyen Yubiao Sun Huajie Gu Afshin Asadzadeh Shahir

Yousef Alqaryouti

2:35 pm 2:50 pm Alicia Ragan Gloria Monsalve Bravo Songcan Wang Xiaolei Shi Muhammad Shazril Idris Ibrahim

Md Habibullah Bhuyan

2:50 pm 3:05 pm Yading Wang M. Abdul Quader Muhammad Shirjeel Khan

Raza Moshwan Yun Liu Matthew Gear

3:05 pm 3:20 pm Boon-Beng Lee Ravi Dutta Sohel Uddin Juliana Nunes Samira Siyamak Li Min

3:20 pm 3:35 pm Mohamed Manoufali Maziar Gholami Korzani Muhammad Ansari Surina Mat Suboh Siqi Yang Clement Chan

3:35 pm 3:50 pm Scott Heiner Ahmad Roslee

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

SELLING YOUR IDEAS: A STORY OF COMMERCIALISATION PROFESSOR CHRIS GREIG DIRECTOR, UQ ENERGY INITIATIVE & DIRECTOR, DOW CENTRE FOR SUSTAINABLE ENGINEERING INNOVATION

Professor Chris Greig leads both the UQ Energy Initiative and the Dow Centre for Sustainable Engineering Innovation. Chris is a Chemical Engineer having obtained his degree and PhD at the University of Queensland and is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. While studying his PhD he founded a successful start-up company that provided innovative process technology to the sugar and minerals industries. Chris led the company for fifteen years before a successful exit via a trade sale. Since then and prior to joining UQ, he held executive roles in the construction, mining and energy industries, both in Australia and abroad. He is a Non-Executive Director of Seymour Whyte Limited and has held various other corporate and Government board positions including as Deputy Chairman of Gladstone Ports Corporation.

At UQ, in addition to his Directorship roles, Chris is on the Advisory Boards for the Centre for Coal Seam Gas (Chair), the School of Chemical Engineering and co-leads the Energy Poverty Research Group and Carbon Capture and Storage Research Group. His main interests lie in Energy Transitions, Economics and Policy, Energy for Development, Mega-Project Implementation and Carbon Capture and Storage.

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BLOOD, SWEAT AND START-UPS: AN ENGINEER’S STORY MR JEREMY HERBERT CO-FOUNDER OF HSK INSTRUMENTS

Mr. Jeremy Herbert is an electrical and biomedical engineer who completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Queensland. He co-founded HSK Instruments and during his tenure there was responsible for hardware and firmware development, as well as overseeing engineering operations. He is currently undertaking a PhD and is in his final months of candidacy. He is Interested in the areas of electrical engineering, software engineering, computer science, robotics and rapid prototyping and manufacturing.

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CAPITALISING ON YOUR RHD: INDUSTRY TO ACADEMIA DR LIZA O’MOORE SENIOR LECTURER & DEPUTY ASSOCIATE DEAN (ACADEMIC) EAIT, WOMEN IN ENGINEERING ADVISORY BOARD MEMBER

Dr. Liza O’Moore has over 30 years of experience in structural and concrete design, both as a consultant and as an academic. After graduation Liza joined a local consulting firm and

worked mainly in the areas of industrial and commercial structural design. Upon completion of her postgraduate research, she joined the Civil Structures group in the Brisbane office of Arup. During her time with Arup as a senior engineer and then associate, she was involved in a number of local and international reinforced concrete infrastructure projects. In January 2001, Liza joined the academic staff in the then Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Queensland. She is currently teaching in the areas of reinforced concrete and concrete design and applied mechanics. She is also currently serving a three-year term as Deputy Associate Dean (Academic) for the EAIT Faculty.

In 2011 Liza was elected as the National President of the Concrete Institute of Australia (2011-2013), the first female to be appointed to this position. She served on the National Council of the CIA for eight years (2008-2015). In 2010 Liza was a member of the Expert Reference Panel advising the Green Building Council of Australia (GBCA) Review of Material 5 Credit (Concrete) for the Greenstar rating system. She is current serving on Subcommittee 2 of BD02-002, reviewing material provisions for AS3600 Concrete Structures Code. Liza has been the recipient of School of Engineering Teaching Excellence Awards (2005, 2006), Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2007) and a UQ Award for Teaching Excellence (2010), In 2011 Liza was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student learning. On behalf of the QLD Office of Higher Education (OHE), Liza has also been a Committee member advising on the accreditation of Associate Degrees in Engineering in the VET sector.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS ................................................................................................................... 1

WATER ................................................................................................................................................. 1

ENERGY................................................................................................................................................ 2

HEALTH ................................................................................................................................................ 7

DESIGNING SMART COMMUNITIES ..................................................................................................... 7

INFORMATION ENGINEERING ............................................................................................................. 8

MANUFACTURING AND RESOURCES ................................................................................................... 8

POSTER SESSION .................................................................................................................................... 11

POSTER SUBMISSIONS ........................................................................................................................... 11

CONFERENCE SPONSORS ...................................................................................................................... 13

TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS

WATER Water I: Waste Water

Limin Lin, School of Chemical Engineering Title: THE POSSIBILITY AND CHALLENGE OF ANAMMOX PROCESS APPLICATION ON BIOLOGICAL N REMOVAL FROM SALINE WASTEWATER Key words: saline wastewater, anammox bacteria, halophiles, nitrogen removal

Lele Wang, Advanced Water Management Centre Title: UNDERSTANDING AND ENHANCING THE SINGLE-CELL PROTEIN PRODUCTION FROM FOOD PROCESSING WASTEWATER Key words: experimental design, wastewater, single-cell protein

Alice Strazzabosco, School of Chemical Engineering Title: WASTEWATER UTILITIES OF THE FUTURE: INVESTING IN RENEWABLE ENERGY AND KNOWING WHY Key words: Wastewater, wastewater utilities, renewable energies, barriers, benefits, drivers

Nur Hafizah Ab Hamid, School of Chemical Engineering Title: EXPLORING THE POTENTIAL OF FOMBR IN URBAN WASTEWATER TREATMENT Key words: Forward Osmosis, economic evaluation, wastewater treatment

Water II: Bio-solids

Ryan Beecroft, School of Civil Engineering Title: UNDERSTANDING SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESSES WITHIN THE MUD ISLAND DREDGE SPOIL GROUND, MORETON BAY, QUEENSLAND Key words: sediment transport, coastal dynamics, suspended sediment

Zhiyao Wang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: THE FRACTAL MODEL AND PERFORMANCE OF ANAMMOX GRANULAR SLUDGE Key words: nitrogen removal, granular sludge, settling, mass transfer, mathematical modelling

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Angelica Guerrero, Advanced Water Management Centre Title: HIGH- RATE ACTIVATED SLUDGE (HRAS) PROCESS FOR CARBON RECOVERY Key words: experimental trials, carbon redirection, energy recovery, short sludge retention times, best operating conditions

Catherine Macintosh, Advanced Water Management Centre Title: WINTER IS COMING: WHICH BACTERIAL AND ARCHAEAL KINGDOMS WILL DOMINATE? Key words: Anaerobic digestion, sewage sludge, pig manure, biogas

Water III: Assorted

Afshin Asadzadeh Shahir, School of Chemical Engineering Title: SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION SPECTROSCOPIC STUDY OF INTERFACIAL WATER STRUCTURE AND SPECIFIC ADSORPTION OF IONS ON WATER SURFACE Key words: Laser Spectroscopy, Water surface, ion-specific effect, ion adsorption

Muhammad Shazril Idris Ibrahim, School of Civil Engineering Title: OVERTOPPING OF RANDOM WAVES ALONG A TRUNCATED PLANE BEACH Key words: overtopping, monochromatic waves, random waves, inundation, deficit in freeboard, CLASH database.

Yun Liu, School of Civil Engineering Title: STRATEGIES IN Ni AND Co RECOVERY WITH BIOGENIC SULPHIDE Key words: metal recovery; sulphide; precipitation; Nickel; Cobalt

Samira Siyamak, School of Chemical Engineering Title: SMART NUTRIENT RECOVERY SYSTEMS BASED ON STARCH HYDROGELS: SUSTAINABLE MATERIAL SOLUTIONS FOR WASTEWATER INDUSTRIES Key words: Nutrient capture, Water, Reactive extrusion

ENERGY Energy I: Coal & Gas

Tianhang Bai, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY ON THE IMPACT OF DEWATERING INDUCED COAL FINES ON COAL PERMEABILITY Key words: Coal fines generation and migration; Core flooding; Permeability variation

Junyu Wang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: FUNDAMENTAL STUDIES ON FINE COAL FLOTATION WITH OSCILLATORY AIR SUPPLY Key words: oscillatory air, fine coal, flotation, fundamental studies

Farzin Hamidi, School of Civil Engineering Title: A 2D EXPERIMENTAL SETUP FOR INVESTIGATING HYDRAULIC FRACTURING Key words: Synthetic rock, Rock-like material, Crack propagation, Hydraulic fracturing, Physical modelling

Zhenhua Jing, School of Chemical Engineering Title: EFFECT OF LIQUID OXIDANTS ON COAL STRUCTURE AND PERMEABILITY Key words: Coal seam gas, Oxidation, Permeability, CT Scanning

Energy II: Sustainability

Wenjing Wang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: NOVEL AMINE IMPREGNATED GRAPHENE/SBA-15 COMPOSITE WITH GOOD STABILITY FOR CO2 CAPTURE Key words: CO2 capture, graphene, amine impregnation, silica

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Tom Reddell, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: BIOMASS FIRED SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE POWER CYCLES IN DEVELOPING WORLD CONTEXTS Key words: Energy, Biomass, Efficiency

Igor Vassilev, Advanced Water Management Centre Title: SUPER-CHARGED MICROBES TURNING CO2 TO BIOFUELS AND BIOPLASTIC PRECURSORS Key words: CO2 Conversion, CO2 Reduction, Biofuels, Bioplastic, Microbial Electrosynthesis, Bioelectrochemical Systems

Paula Hernandez, Advanced Water Management Centre Title: SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM CO2 Key words: Conversion of CO2, Bioelectrochemical Systems, Bioreduction of CO2, Microbial Electrosynthesis

Energy III: Storage

Xin Fan, School of Chemical Engineering Title: NEW GENERATION OF ENERGY STORAGE BEYOND LITHIUM ION BATTERIES Key words: Battery design, magnesium battery, composite materials

Dongfang Yang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: GRAPHENE IMPROVED SODIUM STORAGE PERFORMANCE IN NANOCRYSTALLINE NICO2O4 Key words: composite materials, sodium ion storage, alternative energy source

Linzhou Zhuang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: ULTRATHIN IRON-COBALT OXIDE NANOSHEETS WITH ABUNDANT OXYGEN VACANCIES FOR THE OXYGEN EVOLUTION REACTION Key words: oxygen evolution reaction; sodium borohydride; oxygen vacancy; ultrathin nanosheets

Xin Fu Tan, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: NEW MANUFACTURING METHODS FOR ADVANCED LITHIUM ION BATTERY ANODE MATERIALS Key words: Lithium-ion batteries, manufacturing method, X-ray diffraction (XRD), electron microscopy

Energy IV: Simulation

Travis Mitchell, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODELLING OF TWO-PHASE FLOWS: APPLICATIONS IN THE OIL & GAS SECTOR Key words: Lattice Boltzmann modelling, multiphase flow, numerical methods, unconventional resources

Michael Dennis, School of Chemical Engineering Title: DEVELOPING A FRAMEWORK TO ASSESS AND SCREEN UNCONVENTIONAL GAS SURFACE GATHERING NETWORK DESIGNS AGAINST UNCERTAIN AND VARIABLE INPUT BOUNDARIES Key words: numerical modelling, coal seam gas, chemical engineering, optimisation

Amin Kamyar, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: THERMAL AND HYDRODYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF ICE SLURRY AS AN ENVIRONMENT-FRIENDLY REFRIGERANT Key words: Ice slurry, numerical modelling, heat transfer, rheology, pressure drop.

Duo Wang, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: DIRECT NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF PROPPANT TRANSPORT IN HYDRAULIC FRACTURES Key words: direct numerical simulation, hydraulic fracturing, Lattice Boltzmann method, discrete element method, immersed moving boundary

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Energy V: Power Sys. & Experimental Design

Md Monirul Islam, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: IMPACT OF DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS OF TL-PV SYSTEMS ON THE SHORT-TERM VOLTAGE STABILITY IN RESIDENTIAL DN Key words: Dynamic voltage support, Low voltage ride-through, Short-term voltage stability, Transformerless inverter.

Benjamin Wu, School of Chemical Engineering Title: EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF COUNTER-CURRENT TWO-PHASE FLOWS IN ANNULI Key words: Counter-current flow experimental design

Fei Ren, School of Chemical Engineering Title: SHOCKWAVE GENERATION, PROPAGATION IN WATER AMBIENT AND ITS IMPACT ON COAL STIMULATION Key words: Experimental design

Awan Uji Krismanto, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: DYNAMIC DROOP CONTROL IN MICROGRID FOR STABILITY ENHANCEMENT CONSIDERING RES VARIATION Key words: Microgrid, RES variations, variable droop, power sharing, small signal stability

Energy VI: Energy Storage

Rohit Gaddam, School of Chemical Engineering Title: BIOMASS DERIVED HARD CARBON AS HIGH PERFORMANCE ANODES FOR RECHARGEABLE BATTERIES Key words: battery, sodium-ion, cycling performance, rate capability

Hao Lu, School of Chemical Engineering Title: SUSTAINABLE CELLULOSE-DERIVED POROUS CARBONS FOR ENERGY STORAGE Key words: sustainable and clean energy storage, supercapacitor electrode, cellulose, biomass

Masud Rana, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: SEPARATORS FOR LITHIUM–SULFUR BATTERIES Key words: Li-S battery, lithium polysulfides, Separator, Li-S battery durability

Xia Huang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: DESIGN OF NEW TWO-DIMENSIONAL HYBRID MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM SULFUR BATTERIES Key words: Lithium sulfur battery, separator modification, cycling stability, two-dimensional materials

Energy VII: Simulation

Phillip Swann, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: ROTATING SHAFT THERMAL ANALYSIS FOR SUPERCRITICAL CARBON DIOXIDE RADIAL INFLOW TURBINES Key words: Numerical modelling, Thermal analysis, Turbomachinery

Ebby Thomas, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: APPLICATION OF MARKOVIAN MODELS IN DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT Key words: Demand Side Management, Markov Chains, Markov Decision Process, Feedback Control mechanism.

Jianhui Qi, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: CROSS-VERIFICATION OF OPEN-SOURCE CFD SOLVERS OPENFOAM AND SU2 FOR PERFORMANCE PREDICTIONS OF A 2D SUPERCRITICAL CO2 TURBINE STATOR Key words: Radial inflow turbine, supercritical CO2, Open source solver, SU2, OpenFOAM

Lakshitha Naranpanawe, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: APPLICATIONS OF FEM FOR TRANSFORMER CONDITION MONITORING Key words: power transformers, finite element modelling, condition monitoring

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Energy VIII: Renewables

Licheng Wang, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: VOLTAGE REGULATION PROBLEM CAUSED BY ONE-PHASE PV SYSTEMS AND CORRESPONDING SOLUTIONS Key words: photovoltaic (PV), reactive power, voltage regulation, unbalance, distribution systems

Mengmeng Hao, School of Chemical Engineering Title: LOW COST AND STABLE PBS QUANTUM DOT SOLAR CELL WITH OPTIMIZED QUANTUM-DOT-HOMOJUNCTION STRUCTURE Key words: QD, solar cell, PbS, homojunction

Shanker Lamichhane, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: MODELLING OF PV AND WIND GENERATORS FOR STUDY OF POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS Key words: PV, WIND, MODELLING

Amit Dhoke, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: PV MODULE DEGRADATION ANALYSIS AND IMPACT ON STRING PROTECTION DEVICES Key words: PV Module, Degradation, Fault

Energy IX: Simulation

Ngoc Nguyen, School of Chemical Engineering Title: GAS HYDRATE AS A NOVEL METHOD FOR STORAGE AND TRANSPORT OF NATURAL GAS AND CARBON DIOXIDE Key words: Gas hydrate, MD simulation, gas storage, hydrophobic surface

Gloria Monsalve Bravo, School of Chemical Engineering Title: TRANSPORT IN MIXED-MATRIX MEMBRANES: TAILORING FILLER TRANSPORT INTO THE PERMEATION MODEL Key words: Numerical modelling, composite materials, diffusive transport, membrane-based technologies

M. Abdul Quader, School of Chemical Engineering Title: MODELLING, DESIGN AND OPTIMISATION OF A HYBRID PSA-MEMBRANE HELIUM GAS SEPARATION PROCESS Key words: Hybrid PSA-Membrane process, Helium, Gas separation, Simulation and modelling

Ravi Dutta, School of Chemical Engineering Title: TRANSPORT DIFFUSIVITIES OF GASES IN A POLYMER-INORGANIC SOLID COMPOSITES USING ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS Key words: Gas diffusion, Mixed matrix membranes, Molecular Dynamics

Maziar Gholami Korzani, School of Civil Engineering Title: SPH APPROACH FOR SIMULATING HYDRO-MECHANICALLY COUPLED PROCESSES WITH LARGE DEFORMATIONS AND VARIABLE PERMEABILITIES Key words: variable porosity and permeability; Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH); soil-water interaction

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Energy X: Assorted

Yubiao Sun, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: A STUDY ON MULTI-NOZZLE ARRANGEMENT FOR SPRAY COOLING SYSTEM IN NATURAL DRAFT DRY COOLING TOWER Key words: Natural draft dry cooling tower; full evaporation; spray cooling; multi-nozzle arrangement

Songcan Wang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: SYNERGISTIC CRYSTAL FACET ENGINEERING AND SELF-DOPING OF BIVO4 PHOTOANODE FOR ENHANCED PHOTOELECTROCHEMICAL WATER SPLITTING Key words: bismuth vanadate, electrochemical treatment, oxygen vacancies, crystal facet engineering, water splitting

Muhammad Shirjeel Khan, School of Chemical Engineering Title: A POROUS YTTRIA-STABILIZED ZIRCONIA LAYER TO ELIMINATE THE DELAMINATION OF AIR ELECTRODE IN SOLID OXIDE ELECTROLYSIS CELLS Key words: Delamination, Interface, Oxygen, Porous layer, Solid oxide electrolysis cell

Sohel Uddin, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: ON CAPACITY CONSTRAINT STATE OPTIMIZATION UNDER PARTIAL INFORMATION Key words: Distribution system, Linear programming, Optimization, OPF

Muhammad Ansari, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: POLYIMIDE COATED FIBRE BRAGG GRATING FOR MOISTURE MEASUREMENT IN TRANSFORMER Key words: Transformer, optical fibre, sensor, moisture

Energy XI: Renewables

Huajie Gu, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: IMPACT OF WIND FARM AGGREGATION ON DYNMAIC ACCURACY CONSIDERING WAKE EFFECT Key words: wind farm, dynamic modelling, emulated inertia, wake effect

Xiaolei Shi, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: HIGH DENSITY, HIGH CARRIER CONCENTRATION, AND ULTRA-LOW THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY IN UNDOPED POLYCRYSTALLINE Sn0.98Se Key words: Thermoelectric materials, Tin Selenide, Solvo-thermal Method, Orientations, Carrier Concentration

Raza Moshwan, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: ENHANCED THERMOELECTRIC PERFORMANCE OF SnTe-BASED THERMOELECTRIC MATERIALS Key words: Thermoelectric, SnTe, Power factor

Juliana Nunes, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: A DYNAMIC TRANSITION TOWARDS HIGH RENEWABLE ENERGY PENETRATION IN QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA Key words: High renewable energy penetration, long-term dynamic planning, stochastic programming, uncertainty modelling.

Surina Mat Suboh, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: WIND GENERATOR DISPATCH CONTROL STRATEGY FOR SHORT-TERM SCHEDULABILITY ENHANCEMENT Key words: dispatchability, energy storage, wind generator

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HEALTH Health I

Albert Tate, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: CHARACTERISING SLEEPING POSTURE BY MEASURING TORSO ROTATION AS A CONTINUOUS VARIABLE Key words: Apnea, Sleep Posture, Accelerometry

Alicia Ragan, School of Chemical Engineering Title: THE ROLE OF SALIVA AND THE HUMAN ORAL MUCOSA IN THE MOUTHFEEL PERCEPTION OF DAIRY PROTEINS Key words: Food oral processing, Biointerfaces, Biolubrication, Protein Chemistry, Experimental Design

Yading Wang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: INVESTIGATING THE SURFACE TRIBOLOGY OF CELLULOSE HYDROGELS WITH NON-CELLULOSIC POLYSACCHARIDE CONJUGATES ADDITIVES Key words: Biotribology, Cellulose hydrogels, Biopolymer conjugates

Boon-Beng Lee, School of Chemical Engineering Title: INFLUENCE OF PROCESS VARIABLES ON THE PRODUCTIVITY OF THE IMPINGING AEROSOLS DEVICE Key words: calcium alginate microgels, encapsulation, biopolymer, process optimisation, size and size distribution

Mohamed Manoufali, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: BRAIN IMPLANTABLE MEDICAL DEVICE Key words: health, medical device, analytical and numerical modelling

DESIGNING SMART COMMUNITIES DSC I: Transport

Muhammad Qamar Raza, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: AN INTELLIGENT MULTIVARIATE ENSEMBLE FRAMEWORK FOR PV OUTPUT POWER FORECAST FOR PV INTEGRATED SMART BUILDINGS Key words: Forecast, smart building, comfort, ensemble framework

Mohadeseh Rahbar, School of Civil Engineering Title: RISK ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK FOR THE RAIL TRANSPORT OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS Key words: rail transport, hazardous materials, risk assessment

S M Mahmud, School of Civil Engineering Title: ROAD FACTORS INFLUENCING SPEED BEHAVIOUR OF DRIVERS IN A DEVELOPING COUNTRY HIGHWAY ENVIRONMENT AND POTENTIAL CRASH RISK Key words: Speed Behaviour, Factors, Crash Risk, Developing Country

Samuel Hislop-Lynch, School of Civil Engineering Title: COMPUTER-BASED PEDESTRIAN TRACKING TO IMPROVE THE AIRPORT EXPERIENCE Key words: Computer Vision, Pedestrian Modelling, Artificial Intelligence

DSC II: Assorted

Kirsty Volz, The School of Architecture Title: BOOM AND SKILLS SHORTAGES: HOW REGIONAL QUEENSLAND HELPED LAUNCH THE CAREERS OF AUSTRALIA’S EARLY WOMEN ARCHITECTS Key words: Women in Architecture, Architectural History, Regional Queensland

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Xu Jiang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: WATER MODEL STUDY OF MIXING BEHAVIOURS IN COPPER SMELTING SIDE BLOWN AND BOTTOM BLOWN FURNACES Key words: Water model study

Kianoosh Soltani Naveh, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: MACHINES THAT LEARN THEIR OPERATING ENVIRONMENT Key words: control systems, machine learning, motion planning, stochastic optimisation

Ian Levett, School of Chemical Engineering Title: AN ENGINEERING APPROACH TO FERTILISER DESIGN FOR INCREASED NUTRIENT UPDATE EFFICIENCY Key words: Controlled release, biopolymers, mathematical modelling

INFORMATION ENGINEERING IE I

Siqi Yang, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO: CASCADING OFF-THE-SHELF FACE DETECTORS Key words: face detection, cascade, false alarms, machine learning

Scott Heiner, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: MECHANISING PROOFS FOR REAL-TIME INTERVALS Key words: formal methods, real-time systems, logic

MANUFACTURING AND RESOURCES MR I: Simulation

Luisa Prasetyo, School of Chemical Engineering Title: AN IMPROVED MODEL FOR NITROGEN ADSORPTION ON GRAPHITIC ADSORBENTS Key words: molecular simulation, adsorption, graphite

ShiLiang Johnathan Tan, School of Chemical Engineering Title: ON THE DESCRIPTION OF COMMENSURATE-INCOMMENSURATE TRANSITION IN ADSORPTION OF KRYPTON ON GRAPHITE Key words: Molecular simulation, Adsorption, Graphite

Mohammad Aminpour, School of Civil Engineering Title: PORE-SCALE BEHAVIOURS OF THE DARCY FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA Key words: Porous media, Darcy, pore fluid

Matthew Pozzebon, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: MODELLING LUBRICATION DECAY IN ROLLING ELEMENT BEARINGS Key words: Lubrication, modelling, grease

MR II: Mining

Andrew Job, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: REAL-TIME SHOVEL MOUNTED COAL OR ORE SENSING Key words: Hyperspectral imaging system design

Tim D'Adamo, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: MAPPING UNCERTAIN AND DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS Key words: robotic perception, data fusion, terrain modelling

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Petrus Terblanche, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: THE POTENTIAL OF ENERGY RECOVERY ON-BOARD SURFACE MINE HAUL TRUCKS Key words: Mine haul trucks, energy recovery, hybrid vehicles, electro-mechanical flywheels

Munirud Dean, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: SELECTION AND PLANNING OF IN-PIT CRUSHING AND CONVEYING MINING SYSTEMS FOR DEEP OPEN-PIT METALLIFEROUS APPLICATIONS Key words: Novel Mining Solution - Productivity, Safety, Environmental Compliance and Sustainability

MR III: Metals and Alloys

Qiyang Tan, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: COMBINED INFLUENCE OF BE AND CA ON IMPROVING THE HIGH-TEMPERATURE OXIDATION RESISTANCE OF THE MAGNESIUM ALLOY Mg-9Al-1Zn Key words: Magnesium Alloy; Oxidation Resistance; TGA; SEM

Sean Johnston, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: THE INFLUENCE OF STERILIZATION ON THE BIOCORROSION OF Mg ALLOYS Key words: Magnesium, Corrosion, Sterilization

Shiqian Liu, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: THE INTERFACIAL REACTIONS BETWEEN Ga BASED ALLOYS AND COMMON SUBSTRATES IN MICROELECTRONICS Key words: gallium based alloy, room temperature liquid alloy, intermetallic compounds

Nagasivamuni Balasubramani, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: ULTRASONICS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF LIGHT METALS CASTINGS FOR IMPROVED STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES Key words: Ultrasonic treatment, grain refinement, aluminium alloys, magnesium alloys

MR IV: Assorted

Youwei Xu, School of Civil Engineering Title: LARGE-SCALE DIRECT SHEAR AND PULL-OUT TESTING OF COARSE-GRAINED SOILS Key words: experimental design

Leela Dilkes-Hoffman, School of Chemical Engineering Title: BIODEGRADABLE FOOD PACKAGING FOR MEAT AND CHEESE DELIVERS POSITIVE GREENHOUSE GAS OUTCOMES ONLY IF IT CAN REDUCE FOOD SPOILAGE OR IMPROVE FOOD WASTE HANDLING Key words: Life cycle analysis, food packaging, biodegradable plastics

Matthias Falzon, School of Civil Engineering Title: LATERAL LOAD DISTRIBUTION ON BURIED CABLE JOINING PITS Key words: Numerical Model Validation via Field Experiment

Asif Islam, Information Technology & Electrical Engineering Title: ENHANCEMENT OF AIR-ARC INTERRUPTION CAPACITY UTILIZING AXIAL MAGNETIC FIELD Key words: Arc interruption, Magnetic field, Load break switch

MR V: Minerals & Extractive Metallurgy

Na Zhang, School of Chemical Engineering Title: THE EFFECT OF SALINE WATER ON THE INTERFACIAL PROPERTIES OF COAL FROTHS AND DEWATERING Key words: coal froth, saline water, rheology, dewatering

Stuart Nicol, School of Chemical Engineering Title: PHASE EQUILIBRIA STUDIES OF THE Cu-Pb-O-Si SYSTEM IN EQUILIBRIUM WITH METAL Key words: smelting thermodynamics pyrometallurgy

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Ambrosia Ivana, School of Chemical Engineering Title: FERRIC SULPHATE PRECIPITATION AT GOLD PRESSURE OXIDATION CONDITIONS Key words: Ferric precipitation, Pressure oxidation, Hematite, Refractory gold, Thermodynamics

Dilini Seneviratne, School of Chemical Engineering Title: CHEMISTRY ENABLED ENLARGEMENT OF BAYER DESILICATION PRODUCT Key words: crystallisation, bauxite, alumina, hydrometallurgy

MR VI: Materials

Han Gao, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: GaAs NANOWIRES GROWTH WITH TESn IN METAL-ORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION Key words: III-V nanowires, GaAs, TESn, doping

Aditi Roy, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: OPTICAL NANOMANIPULATION TO CHARACTERISE NANOSCALE KINETIC FRICTION Key words: Nanowire, friction, nanomanipulation

Flora Somidin, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: IN-SITU ULTRA-HIGH VOLTAGE TEM OBSERVATION OF Sn-RICH SOLDER JOINT ON Cu-SUBSTRATE Key words: Ultrahigh-Voltage TEM, Intermetallic compounds, microelectronic

Sven Diermann, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: MANUFACTURE OF PHBV SCAFFOLDS BY SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING Key words: selective laser sintering, scaffold, tissue engineering, PHBV

MR VII: Materials

Yousef Alqaryouti, School of Civil Engineering Title: DIGITAL-FABRICATION STRUCTURES FOR MODULAR PREFABRICATED INFRASTRUCTURE Key words: digital fabrication, hybrid materials, sandwich structures

Md Habibullah Bhuyan, School of Civil Engineering Title: CHARACTERIZATION OF DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES OF ROAD BASE MATERIAL FOR THE VARIATION OF MOISTURE AND DENSITY WITH LARGE COAXIAL CELL Key words: cell design, road materials, moisture, density, electrical conductivity

Matthew Gear, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering Title: MECHANISMS OF SURFACE STABILITY IN Al-Zn COATED STEEL Key words: Sustainable Materials Development

Li Min, School of Civil Engineering Title: LOCAL BUCKLING OF HYBRID FRP-TIMBER THIN-WALLED COLUMNS Key words: Timber, FRP, Hybrid FRP-timber columns, local buckling, thin-walled structures, lightweight structures

Clement Chan, School of Chemical Engineering Title: MECHANICAL STABILITY OF WOOD FLOUR / POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA) COMPOSITES MODIFIED BY TALC Key words: Biopolymer, composite materials, mechanical properties

Ahmad Roslee, School of Civil Engineering Title: ANALYSIS OF CONFINED CONCRETE CONTAINING SILICA FUME Key words: experimental design, silica fume, concrete column

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POSTER SESSION

Posters will be on display in the Advanced Engineering Building (Building 50) on Level 3 in Room 301

from 8:30 am till 5:20 pm.

The posters will be judged during the poster session from 4:05 pm to 5:20 pm and we ask that poster

presenters are present during this session, so that judges have an opportunity to engage with the

presenter.

POSTER SUBMISSIONS

1: Igor Vassilev, Advanced Water Management Centre BREATHING AN IRON-COMPLEX MAKES CORYNEBACTERIUM GLUTAMICUM INDEPENDENT OF OXYGEN 2: Sohan Shrestha, Advanced Water Management Centre INTEGRATED PLANT-WIDE MODELLING FOCUSING ON MULTIPLE USES OF IRON SALTS: INVESTIGATION OF EFFECT OF CHANGE IN SINGLE SLUDGE LINE PROCESS CONFIGURATIONS 3: Paula Hernandez, Advanced Water Management Centre SUSTAINABLE PRODUCTION OF CHEMICALS FROM CO2 4: Luisa Prasetyo, School of Chemical Engineering AN IMPROVED MODEL FOR NITROGEN ADSORPTION ON GRAPHITIC ADSORBENTS 5: ShiLiang Johnathan Tan, School of Chemical Engineering ON THE RECONCILIATION OF THE COMMENSURATE-INCOMMENSURATE TRANSITION BETWEEN EXPERIMENTAL DATA AND COMPUTER SIMULATION FOR KRYPTON ADSORPTION 6: Clement Chan, School of Chemical Engineering MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYHYDROXYALKANOATE (PHA)-BASED WOOD PLASTIC COMPOSITES (WPCS): EFFECT OF TALC 7: Mohadeseh Rahbar, School of Civil Engineering A HYBRID METHOD FOR CAPACITATED MULTICOMMODITY NETWORK DESIGN (CMND) 8: Yousef Alqaryouti, School of Civil Engineering DIGITAL-FABRICATION STRUCTURES FOR MODULAR STRUCTURES 9: Mateo Gutierrez, School of Civil Engineering EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES OF BAMBOO COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH AT ELEVATED TEMPERATURE 10: Md Habibullah Bhuyan, School of Civil Engineering INTRODUCTION OF FLAT RIBBON CABLE FOR IN SITU DENSITY MEASUREMENT OF ROAD MATERIALS USING TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY 11: Mohammad Aminpour, School of Civil Engineering PORE-SCALE BEHAVIOURS OF DARCY FLOW IN POROUS MEDIA

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12: Farzin Hamidi, School of Civil Engineering SYNTHETIC LOW STRENGTH ROCK-LIKE MATERIALS FOR LABORATORY MODELLING 13: Matthias Falzon, School of Civil Engineering LATERAL LOAD DISTRIBUTION ON BURIED CABLE JOINING PITS 14: Somayeh Behraftar, School of Civil Engineering MICROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION OF THE FRACTURE PROPAGATION PROGRESS 15: Andrea Lucherini, School of Civil Engineering INVESTIGATING THE ACTIVATION OF THIN INTUMESCENT COATINGS 16: Albert Tate, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering CHARACTERISING SLEEPING POSTURE BY MEASURING TORSO ROTATION AS A CONTINUOUS VARIABLE 17: Amit Dhoke, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering PV MODULE DEGRADATION ANALYSIS AND ITS IMPACT ON STRING PROTECTION DEVICES FOR FAULT DETECTION 18: Siqi Yang, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering IT TAKES TWO TO TANGO: CASCADING OFF-THE-SHELF FACE DETECTORS 19: Mohamed Manoufali, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering MICROWAVE TOMOGRAPHY IMAGING 20: Tianhang Bai, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering IMPACT OF FLOW REGIMES ON COAL FINES GENERATION DURING COAL SEAM GAS (CSG) PRODUCTION 21: Sean Johnston, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering STERILIZATION & BIOCORROSION: APPLICABLE TECHNIQUES FOR Mg ALLOYS 22: Travis Mitchell, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering LATTICE BOLTZMANN MODELLING OF TWO-PHASE FLOWS 23: Duo Wang, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering INVESTIGATION AND OPTIMISATION OF THE LATTICE BOLTZMANN METHOD AND IMMERSED MOVING BOUNDARY SCHEME 24: Hongkui Gong, School of Mechanical & Mining Engineering FIBRE OPTIC GEOTECHNICAL MONITORING SYSTEMS FOR UNDERGROUND MINES 25: Maryam Shafiei, The School of Architecture RURAL TRANSFORMATION FOLLOWS URBAN GROWTH: THE ESSENCE OF DECIPHERING RURAL-URBAN INTERRELATIONS

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